Being new to brewing iv been watching a lot of YouTube and noticed many young bearded hipsters doing their IPA’s.. the penny’s dropped Hops and pot: How they're related
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It’s legal in most states across the pond now so I guess it could be big money to be had over there. But yeah think definitely a gimmick. Hops have been used for hundreds if not thousands of years, weed hasn’t.There are CBD infused beers, not tried one but I'm not really sold on the idea as it sounds like a bit of a gimmick.
Cannabis buds look quite similar to hop flowers as well, would be interesting if some of those cafes in Amsterdam took up brewing beer
I mean within brewing..u don’t find the Incas, Ancient Egyptians or European Monks using weed in beer. They probably tried but it just didn’t give the best results. It definitely does have that “Twang” to it tho when you open a fresh packet of hopsWeed is hardly a recent thing, but there definitely is a linkage. You notice it straightaway when drinking home-brew compared to shop beer, and the extra hops (I'm guessing most of us like beer which is more hopped than the norm for shop beer) is surely the reason. I have drunk one of those cannabis infused beers, and as noted, it's just a gimmick really.
I think the economical thing wouldn’t have been a problem. Modern society puts a price on commodity’s. Back then , same as today it’s just a weed. .. Then there’s the paintings “Gin Lane” so I don’t think there was a taboo “about being out of it”. Im thinking weed just wasn’t that good in beer brewing over hopsI wonder if it's just not economical.
Cannabis with a strong/appealing aroma tends to be very expensive.
I could see how it would work but but would be damn expensive.
Beer in a lot of ancient societities were a staple. Would you want your day to day drink to have pyschoactive properties???
Maybe for religious reasons???
Opium was used in some Greek cults and an opium wine was drunk in ancient Rome.
Society putting a price on things is not a modern phenomenon.I think the economical thing wouldn’t have been a problem. Modern society puts a price on commodity’s. Back then , same as today it’s just a weed. ..
Let’s not also forget that Gin Lane is half of a two piece work - the other half being Beer Street, where good, honest British ale is contrasted with the effects of that nasty continental liquor.The Gin Lane Lithograph was part of an anti-Gin campaign in the 19th century.
Gin was the first mass produced spirit that could be afforded by the working class and caused great worry about the social damge it could cause.
If you notice, in the centre of the lithograph, a mother is throwing away her nursing baby to get her gin fix.
I forgot that part.Let’s not also forget that Gin Lane is half of a two piece work - the other half being Beer Street, where good, honest British ale is contrasted with the effects of that nasty continental liquor.
Obviously propaganda but also illustrative of the views at the time of the role of beer vs spirits. Beer was sustenance; if you wanted to get plastered (and throw you life away - just say no, kids) then gin was for you.
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